October 8, 2009 | 21 comments

Petite Pictures: The 20 Microscopic Photo Competition Prizewinners

Putting the very small on the big stage, the 35th annual Nikon Small World Competition awards top images

By Katherine Harmon

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Studying the brain, Dominik Paquet of the Ludwig Maximilians University's Adolf Butenandt Institute in Munich stained different parts of this Alzheimer's-model zebra fish. Its neurons are green, tau proteins appear red, and the pathological tau, blue. The fish appears here at 10 x magnification under a confocal. The group published a paper on the zebra fish as a model for studying Alzheimer's earlier this year in The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

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